News / ICS injects more urgency into maritime climate change ambitions

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The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has recognised the extent of the climate crisis with its latest proposal to update to the industry’s climate change ambitions to net zero emissions by 2050, effectively doubling the maritime targets.

In its latest submission to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the ICS said the proposals agreed in 2018 were well below the necessary decarbonisation proposals required by the United Nations’ expert panel on climate change and would not meet targets in the 2015 Paris ...